[78-L] Grey Gull/record label cannot lie

[Donna Halper]

On 11/23/2012 2:03 PM, jim brannen wrote:
> I agree. Great bit of research, Donna, but the question I have is "Does anyone really know where those 28,000 Greygulls went?"
>    
Based on newspaper research I have done about GG, some department stores 
may have scooped them up.  About a year ago, I was doing similar 
research and noted a sudden number of ads touting sales (with really 
really low prices) at discount department stores in the early 1930s.  I 
had no explanation at the time, and I recall finding it odd (before I 
found the bankruptcy info three days ago) that suddenly stores in cities 
across the country (W.T. Grant comes to mind) were advertising bargain 
prices on GG records.  I assume most folks in Butte, Montana or Boise 
Idaho had no idea Grey Gull had gone out of business.  I'll go re-check 
my files and see where some of the records ended up.